{"id":7966,"date":"2009-09-14T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2015-05-04T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:12:37","slug":"shirin-neshat-wins-best-director-award-at-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/shirin-neshat-wins-best-director-award-at-venice-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirin Neshat Wins Best Director Award at Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>\nIranian video artist Shirin Neshat won the Silver Lion for best director for &#8220;Women Without Men&#8221; at the 66th edition of the Venice film festival on Saturday. The film chronicles the lives of four women from different walks of life against the backdrop of Iran&#8217;s foreign-backed coup in 1953.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2144 aligncenter\" title=\"Shirin Neshat Wins Best Director Award at Venice Film Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Shirin-Neshat.jpg\" alt=\"Shirin Neshat Wins Best Director Award at Venice Film Festival\" width=\"285\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Shirin Neshat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nThanking the jury for the award, she said this film has been a labor of love for six years. She said it is a film that speaks to the people of Iran fighting to find democracy and it speaks to the government of Iran. She added, &#8220;I plead to this government to give the people what they should have &#8211; basic human rights, freedom and democracy. 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